Quotes of Franz Boas - somelinesforyou

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ Ethnological phenomena are the result of the physical and psychical character of men, and of its development under the influence of the surroundings. ”

- Franz Boas

“ My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science. ”

- Franz Boas

“ In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ”

- Franz Boas

“ Modern democracy was no doubt the most wholesome and needed reaction against the abuses of absolutism and of a selfish, often corrupt, bureaucracy. ”

- Franz Boas

“ My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ”

- Franz Boas

“ We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life. ”

- Franz Boas

“ My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. ”

- Franz Boas

“ My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ”

- Franz Boas

“ This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. ”

- Franz Boas

“ We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. ”

- Franz Boas

“ The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the. ”

- Franz Boas

“ I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. ”

- Franz Boas
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